free-sidecar
Enable Sidecar on Unsupported iPads and Macs running iPadOS 13 and macOS Catalina (by ben-z)
Legacy-Video-patch
Fix Old Graphics card in macOS Catalina 10.15++ (by chris1111)
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free-sidecar
Posts with mentions or reviews of free-sidecar.
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Not sure which macOS version you’re running but you can try your luck with Free Sidecar. It enables unsupported Macs and iPads to also use Sidecar. It’s worked for me in the past, problem was I was trying to enable support on an iPad Air 2 and Sidecar only works with an Apple Pencil (IPA2 does not support Pencil) so it did not work regardless. But it may be able to help your situation.
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Any way to get Sidecar/Universal Control to work with an iPad Air Gen 2?
My Macbook meets all of the requirements to run Sidecar and Universal Control perfectly fine, but my iPad is just one generation too old. I feel like it should still be capable of supporting Sidecar since I've already found what looks to be a working method to run Sidecar on much older Macs and iPads ("Free Sidecar" https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar). This method would not work for me though, I believe because my Macbook is updated to Monterey and this was designed a while ago for Catalina. If my iPad can go as far as running Universal Control, that would be even better.
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Desperate for Sidecar to work HELP IF POSSIBLE!! plz&thnx!!
Also, when following this guide found in a different post (https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar), I try the first step to make a backup file for Sidecar, by running this in Terminal: cp /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SidecarCore.framework/Versions/A/SidecarCore ~/Downloads/SidecarCore.bak
- Using Universal Control and Sidecar at the same time..
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Just Ordered M1 Mac Mini w 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD
I'll leave this here https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar, you can always try it before upgrading to a better iPad.
- [Question] is there any tweak that turns your older iPad 5th generation into a duel monitor? I’m on iOS 14.4 so I don’t have the native iPad functionality that enables this and all the other options cost money in the App Store.
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how do i get sidecar to work? open core big sur
-ben-z's free-sidecar ONLY IF your SMBIOS doesn't support Sidecar natively. I don't know for sure but if it can run Big Sur odds are it can run Sidecar. The method covered in this git readme might not work though if Big Sur changed codesigning.
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I created Deskreen. This is a free open source desktop app that makes any device with a web browser a second screen for your computer. Built with ElectronJS, React and other web technologies.
Nice work, but check this out: https://github.com/ben-z/free-sidecar
Legacy-Video-patch
Posts with mentions or reviews of Legacy-Video-patch.
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- pls help getting Nvidia working on Catalina
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macOS Monterey on socket 775
There is a legacy patch for gt210 https://github.com/chris1111/Legacy-Video-patch And i have a ssd also
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Is it possible to make a new Catalina patcher for AMD/ATI Radeon 5xxx and 6xxx?
I have a 2010 iMac with ATI Radeon 5xxx and The patcher slowed down the Mac very much, I want to install macOS Catalina with full graphics acceleration and I heard that Legacy-Video-Patch got a full support for ATI Radeon 5xxx and 6xxx. Is it possible to do the same for older macs with a new Catalina patcher since Dosdude1 isn’t around at the moment.
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Kernel Panic after applying Legacy Video Patch to AMD hack
So, my XFX 8800 GS works perfectly fine in High Sierra. I installed 10.15.7 to the machine, installed all updates, patched my GPU in OpenCore's config. Then I turned off SIP and installed Legacy Video Patch, and after rebooting I got a kernel panic. It's complaining about NVIDIA kexts:
- How do I increase the vram to 512MB on the x220 Tablet? I’m also having some battery issues + no touch on it.
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Catalina Installation - HP 6300 Pro SFF
I followed this to get the video card working: https://github.com/chris1111/Legacy-Video-patch
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Does the Radeon 6970 have any support for any recent MacOS Hackintosh?
Your card officially loses support at 10.14. chris1111's legacy video patch allows full resolution, but there is no graphics acceleration.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing free-sidecar and Legacy-Video-patch you can also consider the following projects:
FeatureUnlock - Add Sidecar support to unsupported models
nightfall - Nightfall protocols for private transactions on the Ethereum blockchain using zk-snarks
deskreen - Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer. ⭐️ Star to support our work!
Hackintosh-Intel-i9-10900k-Gigabyte-Z490-Vision-D - https://www.patreon.com/SchmockLord
SlideOverCard - A SwiftUI card view, made great for setup interactions.
Retroactive - Retroactive only receives limited support. Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, and macOS Catalina. Xcode 11.7 on macOS Mojave. Final Cut Pro 7, Logic Pro 9, and iWork ’09 on macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra.
Google-Chinese-Results-Blocklist - 我终于能用谷歌搜中文了……
Nightfall - A menu bar utility for toggling dark mode in macOS, written in Swift.
nocturnal - A Dimness and Night Shift menu bar app for macOS 🌙
Matebook-X-Pro-2018 - 💻 macOS on Huawei Matebook X Pro 2018
purge-wrangler - AMD & NVIDIA eGPUs for all Thunderbolt Macs.
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